ionophoresis

Other forms of ionophoresis

plural

ionophoresises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ionophoresis

What does ionophoresis mean?

ionophoresis means "the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode".

How many syllables are in ionophoresis?

ionophoresis has 6 syllables and divides as i-o-no-pho-re-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ionophoresis?

Close synonyms include electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ionophoresis a common word?

ionophoresis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.